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Grace
All week I’ve been feeling like God has been calling me to write a blog post, but I’ve been putting it off. I didn’t think I was strong...
Sep 3, 20223 min read

Freedom
I wrestled with God all week about what I should write about. I just wanted to write about THIS part of my life, where I was safe and...
Jul 9, 20223 min read

Kentucky Home For Sex Trafficking Survivors Awarded Gold Certification
For immediate release May 16th, 2022 Lexington, KY— Refuge for Women - Kentucky, a residential home providing therapeutic and restorative...
May 16, 20222 min read

Congressional Briefing on H.R. 6552
Safe House Project has the honor of leading a national coalition of more than 400 anti-trafficking organizations, corporations, business...
Mar 11, 20221 min read

Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act - Virtual Congressional Briefing
How $1Billion in Federal Funds could go away to further Domestic and International Initiatives to Combat Trafficking if the Frederick...
Mar 1, 20221 min read


Cultural Competency When Serving Trafficking Survivors
This February, we spend time considering and honoring black history. We reflect on the fact that over 40% of those who are victimized by...
Feb 24, 20223 min read


Interagency Collaboration for Emergency Housing
Interagency collaboration to respond to the emergency needs of trafficking survivors is critical. Rescue America, Frontline Response -...
Feb 24, 20222 min read

All I Want
I am painfully aware of how hard it must be to support me sometimes. I'm not always good at explaining why something is not helpful. I'm...
Jun 12, 20212 min read

The world needs you
In the time I’ve been writing, I’ve had handfuls of stories from other survivors placed in my lap. I’ve done my best to sit with them in...
Apr 25, 20212 min read

CHANGE OF PERSPECTIVE - LOVE
“Unworthy. Undeserving. Unlovable. Those words have been branded on me since I was 4 years old. No one ever told me it could be...
Apr 9, 20213 min read

CHANGE OF PERSPECTIVE - ADVOCACY
“I had been taught all my life I didn’t deserve an advocate. I didn’t know what to do with myself when the advocates in my life began to...
Apr 3, 20212 min read

Change of Perspective - Doctors
“Every medical professional I seemed to run into I felt like didn’t have the information they needed. They either didn’t know how to help...
Mar 12, 20212 min read

Run
I run because running for my life is no longer self preservation, but self love. I run because it teaches me again and again not how my...
Mar 12, 20211 min read

Change of Perspective - Police
“I grew up learning there are two kinds of cops: the ones who rape you, and the ones who protect the rapists.” I had a cop that was a...
Feb 17, 20213 min read

Relearning - One Day At A Time
“I never knew how much I didn’t know until I needed the information. I feel suffocated by how behind I am sometimes.” As a child sex...
Feb 12, 20212 min read

Live Saving Work Through a Pandemic
#GivingTuesdayNow A movement sparked by Americans watching those who are continuing life saving work amidst a pandemic.
May 5, 20202 min read

Living Proof
Impostor syndrome tells me that I am not qualified enough. I am not strong enough. I am not brave enough. I am not healed enough.
May 4, 20203 min read

Sex Trafficking, Physical Touch, and a Pandemic
Sex Trafficking, Physical Touch, and a Pandemic | Please reach out to the adult survivors in your life.
Apr 28, 20203 min read

Beyond Happy
To be joyful for me means that I’m happy. Beyond happy.
Apr 11, 20201 min read

Dear Survivor | You Are Loved
Every time you forget your worth, remember YOU are worthy. Every time you allow your past to define you, remember YOU are your future.
Apr 10, 20201 min read
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